A piano is a piano is... [Re: detection/identification]

["Andrew L. Kaye" <androsky@xxxxxxxx>]

lseltzer@PHOENIX.PRINCETON.EDU wrote:

> It seems to me that the issue is not only whether one can notice the
> difference between a real and synthesized piano

Is a piano heard on the radio in a sense a "synthesized piano"?  In any
case, it is not the same as das ding itself.  In the car this evening, a
piano was playing a solo in a jazz piece (straight-ahead, post-bop
style) and I told my 4-year daughter, "That is a piano, sweetheart."
She replied, "I know that!  It sounds like a piano so it is a piano."

Andrew L. Kaye
Ethnomusicologist
Bethlehem, PA
musicmap@iname.com

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